SRE Lead: Data, Cloud & Developer Experience

InforCapital; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead the adoption of SRE practices, improve observability, and ensure reliable services across the firm. The role involves instrumentation, monitoring, and automation to reduce toil and incident impact.

The successful candidate will collaborate with development and operations teams to design resilient systems, participate in on-call rotations, and drive continuous improvement in reliability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm.
• Incorporating observability standards into code and deployment pipelines.
• Evolving the SRE standards that are adopted across all teams.
• Partnering with colleagues in various roles to improve service reliability and operational efficiency.
• Assisting developers and engineers directly and through AI assistants.
• Implement instrumentation and provide comprehensive performance insights to service owners.
• Ensuring monitoring and alerting that reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations.
• Implementing strategic observability tools and working to control overhead in maintenance and cost.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to ensure service availability and minimize operational impact.
• Using automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems with minimal human intervention.
• Fostering a culture of reliability and continuous improvement across product engineering teams.

Job description

Blackstone is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead the adoption of SRE practices, improve observability, and ensure reliable services across the firm. The role involves instrumentation, monitoring, and automation to reduce toil and incident impact.

The successful candidate will collaborate with development and operations teams to design resilient systems, participate in on-call rotations, and drive continuous improvement in reliability and performance.